Hello readers. We are disappointed to learn about an editorial error that appeared in the first publication of our most recent article “On Non-Black Afropessimism”. The second paragraph in the final section of the article included a quote from another article and said quote was not properly cited. The quote was the following;

“As a non-Black debater, your relationship to afro pessimism will always be theoretical, redundant, and objectifying ”

This sentence appeared in the article “Flipping Aff & Being Black” by Rashad Evans.

One of the authors in the article published on our cite heard the phrase from another one of the authors of the work, and was under the impression that said author originally came up with the sentence. Thus, when writing the article, the author of that section thought they were writing what a co-author of the piece had said. We were not until after publication that we learned of our error. Since then the error has been changed.

The quote did not appear as unoriginal work in the plagiarism detection software originally used to check our work during the pre-publication process. moving forward, we are revising our editorial process in order to prevent this issue in the future.

On this site we are committed to the highest standards of citation and editorial practice and we would like to give our full apology to Rashad Evans as well as our Readers.

This cite has been created and run by High School Students who are learning and growing through this process. We are beyond thankful to have a community that calls us out when we make mistakes. We look forward to featuring more content and to building a better debate community in the process.